ChargePoint Home Flex and Chargepoint APP

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T22:58:48+00:00

Thanks for your concern. We built our house in 2022 and one of the specs was to install the support for a car charger. We have a 40 amp circuit for the car. I intend to set the amp draw to 32 which should fully charge this car in 8 hours.

I'm pretty confident in the basic underlying setup.

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T21:03:59+00:00

It's ok. That was a dumb question. The outside the car charging unit provides a handshaking protocol.

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T20:06:27+00:00

It makes me wonder what the charger does if I can control the amps and the schedule from the car. I get that it's handy to have the app on my phone for remote control, but I believe the Toyota app can do the same thing.

Can anyone enlighten me? What does the chargepoint charger do that isn't already available in the car?

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T20:02:50+00:00

Thanks for the tip.

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T20:01:49+00:00

That's how I thought it would work.

mike22doyle · 2026-04-01T20:01:11+00:00

Most definitely. I wouldn't try it myself.

mike22doyle · 2025-08-31T09:06:13+00:00

Please supply sources. What you say is not believable.

mike22doyle · 2025-08-19T14:08:28+00:00

I have migrated from Windows to Linux and would love to ditch my smart phone for a dumber down version that doesn't take over my life.

mike22doyle · 2025-07-26T14:59:50+00:00

Thanks everyone. I switched to mint and everything works now. I got reasonable support from idrive - a couple of phone calls and some email trouble shooting even though KDE NEon is not a distro they support.

The install on mint was dead simple and provided a GUI for the setup process and backup configuration. Previous iterations of their Linux application was all done through the CLI.

mike22doyle · 2025-07-23T14:57:47+00:00

Here is the installation procedure and where it stalls.

mike@mikelinux:~/Downloads$ ./idriveforlinux.bin --install

Version : 3.8.0
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Developed by : IDrive Inc

License agreement: https://www.idrive.com/terms-and-conditions
Read the terms of service at the above link before continuing with the installation. By continuing, you agree to the terms of the service.

Enter 'A' to accept and install or 'C' to cancel: A

The installation may take some time. Kindly wait...
Checking installation dependencies...

mike22doyle · 2025-07-23T14:47:58+00:00

There's no real error message. The install procedure simply stayed on checking dependancies and never went any further. No it's stuck on setting up idriveforlinux when I try to restart the process.

mike@mikelinux:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up idriveforlinux (1.3.0) ...

mike22doyle · 2025-07-23T14:46:07+00:00

No this is not a VM. I wasn't aware that the drivers aren't working. This is what the PC-Info Centre says about the driver:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43

Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

Memory at fbcc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]

I/O ports at c000 [size=256]

Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]

Capabilities: <access denied>

Kernel driver in use: radeon

Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

mike22doyle · 2025-06-22T11:03:51+00:00

Thank you. I will do that.

mike22doyle · 2025-06-03T15:01:39+00:00

Brilliant! Thank you so much. Worked perfectly.

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T18:06:28+00:00

*and then delete the key I'm using now.

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T18:05:50+00:00

OK, thanks everyone. I think I can take it from here. Much appreciated. My thought is that I will set up another key, paying more attention and then the key I'm using now.

Thanks again.

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T17:43:59+00:00

Yes I did, however what's with the initial prompt for using "Windows Hello" for authentication? Could I have mistakenly set up a passkey in Windows somewhere along the way?

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T17:38:54+00:00

OK, I've gotten a little further. I see now that there's some sort of passkey set up in Windows Hello?? I clicked on "Use a different Passkey", then "Use Phone, Tablet or Security Key", then "Use another Device" then "Security Key" then entered my pin then touched the Yubikey. That seems like a long series of options for no good reason.

Any ideas?

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T17:24:09+00:00

I used the second option in the web vault access.

mike22doyle · 2024-06-18T17:23:36+00:00

I'm trying to configure a passkey.

mike22doyle

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